Measuring dispenser for liquids



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patented June 13, 1933 warren STATES" PATENT OFFIC ANTON KOKENGE, F GRANVILLE, IOWA, ASSIGNOROF ONE-SIXTH TO JOHN KOKENGE, ONE-SIXTH T'O HENRY KELLEN, BOTH OF GRANVILLE, IOWA; ONE-SIXTH TO ERNEST KOKENGE, ONE-SIXTH TO JOSEPH EULBERG ANDONE- SIXTH TO JOHN HANSEN, ALL

OF ALTON, IOWA MEASURING DISPENSER FOR. LIQUIDS Application filed March 23, 1328. Serial No. 264,029.

My invention relates to improvements in measuring dispensers for liquids, and the object of my improvement is to provide a measnring receptacle for manual use having volume limiting means determined by the 1nclusion of an overflow and interior receiving chamber having an interiorly discharging device, whereby only the determined volume of contents of the receptacle can be delivered therefrom, any surplus of liquid being retained by said volume limiting means for subsequent return to the receptacle after 1t 1s emptied.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which F1g. 1 1s a central vertical section of my measuring dispensing receptacle taken through the lipped neck thereof medially and also through the discharge device of the inner chamber. Fig.

. 2 is a like section taken through said receptacle at an angle of ninety degrees from the section a of said Fig. 1, and showing only the upper part of the receptacle. Fig. 3 is a fragmental sectional view of the upper part of the receptacle as in Fig. 1, with a modification of the construction.

My invention is not restricted to the precise construction and arrangement of parts herein shown and described, nor to the various details thereof, as the same may be modi fled or rearranged in various particulars without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, one practical embodiment of which has been herein illustrated and described without attempting to show all of the various forms and modifications inwhich my invention might be embodied.

The numeral 1 denotes a metallic receptacle, closed at the bottom and having a contracted upper part terminating in a central open neck 2 provided with an inclined delivery lip 3 in a well-known way for use in pouring out the contents of the receptacle. The receptacle may have a bail handle 4. The neck part 2' is continued downwardly into the receptacle a short distance and there united to the inner raised rim or edge of an annular curved plate 6 providing an annular chamber 7 between it andthe upper curved part of the receptacle. The outer peripheral edge of the plate 6 is united to the side wall of 1. A bottom discharge nipple 15 has a removable closure 2 1 6 I Directly opposite the middle of the delivery lip 3 an aperture 8 is placed in the neck 2 so as to elfect a communication with the inner upper part of the chamber 7 An air tube is mounted to communicate between the chamber 7 and the interior of the neck 2 immediately above said aperture 8, to prevent the formation of a vacuum in said chamber, and to prevent escape of any contents of the chamber without said neck upon tilting of the receptacle inxa certain direction.

The numeral 9 denotes a depending dischar e tube whose-upper end is united to the lower wall'of the annular chamber plate 6 about. a delivery port, the lower end'of the tube being preferably curved toward the adjacent inner wall of the receptacle. The termination of the tube is also preferably inclined upwardly and inwardly to seat thereon aclosure plate or flap 10 whose upper end is pivoted swingingly at an eye 14 to the tube, and the flap or valve 10 is normally seated to 7 close the discharge end of the tube when the receptacle is erect.

The wall of the receptacle may be apertured opposite said valve plate 10 to seat a stem 12 whose inner end is linked to the valve and whose outer end may be knobbed for convenience in manipulation in swinging open the valve to discharge the contents of the chamber 7 into the interior of the receptacle after the measuredfliquid contents of the latter, after overflow of any surplus by way of the aperture 8 into said chamber, has beenemptied from the receptacle by way of the lip 3 upon a forwardtilting of the receptacle. The valve then resumes'its closed position by reason of its weight, drawing in the stem 12 through an apertured stuffingbox or gland 13. 7

It will be seen that the lower limit of the aperture 8 determines the volume of the liquid contents of the receptacle 1, as any surplus poured intothe neck 2 in initially filling the receptacle will overflow byway of til the aperture 8 into the chamber 7 to be retained there until the contents of the receptacles are poured out over the lip 3, after which the valve 10 may be opened by the means described to return the surplus liquid from the chamber 7 into the receptacle. This causes a considerable saving of the liquid, especially when the device is in frequent use daily at a gasoline filling station or elsewhere.

The modification shown in Fig. 3 is the preferred and the fundamental form of the device and has the same principles of invention as in the device of said Fig. l. The closure plate 10 is similarly by gravity held closed upon its inclined seat. When the receptacle 1 isfilled to and above the aperture 8 in its neck, the port 8 permits overflow of liquid into the chamber 7 until the level of liquid in the neck is established at the indicating limit of the bottom of said port. When the liquid in the receptacle as thus measured is poured out, the overflow liquid in the chamber 7 is retained therein by the flap valve 10, but when the receptacle after being emptied is restored to or held in a sub stantially erect position, and as there no longer exists an equalization of pressure of liquid around the tube 9, the weight of the superincumbent liquid in the chamber? and tube 9 causes the valve 10 to swing open to discharge the surplus liquid into the empty receptacle, which may then be returned to the source of supply, effecting an important percentage of saving of the liquid.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: p

1. A measuring dispensing receptacle for liquids having a delivery neck and having a closed chamber having a communication with said neck at a height determining the volume of the receptacle to that limit, said chamber having a small air vent and having a bottom port for communication with the receptacle, and gravity controlled valvular means for said bottom port.

2. A measuring dispensing receptacle, for liquids having a delivery neck and having a closed chamber with a communication with said neck at a height determining the volume of the receptacle to that limit, said chamber having a small air vent at the top and having a bottom delivery device in communication with the receptacle, and gravity controlled means for controlling the delivery of said device.

8. A measuring dispensing receptacle for liquids having a lipped delivery neck and having a closed chamber with a communica tion with said neck opposite the neck lip and at a height determining the volume of the receptacle to that limit, due to overflow into said chamber, said chamber having a small air vent at the top and having at the bottom a delivery spout delivering into the recep' tacle, and a gravity controlled swinging closure for the spout adapted to open after the emptying of the receptacle by pressure of the superincumbent liquid in said chamber.

4;. A measuring dispensing receptacle for liquids having a lipped delivery neck and having a closed chamber of annular shape around the base of said neck with a communication with the lower part of the neck opposite the neck lip, and having a small communication from its top above the other communication and into said neck, serving as an air vent for the chamber, the chamber having a depending spout communicating with the receptacle, and a valve adapted to close said spout normally and opening to discharge the contents of the chamber into the receptacle after discharge of liquid from the receptacle to a level below the spout.

A. measuring dispensing receptacle for liquids having means for discharging its contents and having an auxiliary chamber for holding liquid, arranged in communication with its upper part at a determined height for determinin the volume of the receptacle by overflow into the chan'iber, said auxiliary chamber having a valve-controlled discharge passage into the receptacle.

6. A measuring dispensing receptacle for liquids having a delivery neck, the neck having an aperture at its lower part to determine by overflow the volume of liquid in the receptacle at that limit, the receptacle having a closed chamber into which said aperture opens to receive said overflow, said chamber having at the top an air vent and having at the bottom a depending spout in communication with the chamber and whose lower end is in communication with the interior of the receptacle below the chamber, and'a valvular closure for said spout. V

7. A measuring dispensing receptacle for liquids having a delivery neck and an auXiliary chamber communicating with said neck at a determined height for determining the volume of the receptacle by overflow into said chamber through said communication, said chamber communicating with the receptacle for discharging the contents of said chamber into the receptacle when the receptacle is moved to a certain position after discharge of the liquid from the receptacle.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature.

ANTON KOKENGE. 

